Jean Harlow (March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937)

Born Harlean Carpenter,the dentist’s daughter eloped at age 16 with a young businessman and wound up in Los Angeles where she found work as an extra and bit player (examples: Moran of the Marines (1928) Liberty (1929) and somewhat more prominently in Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shorts Double Whoopee (1929), Bacon Grabbers (1929). Her […]